Blogging’s been around for just over a decade. There are something like 200 Million blogs in the ether.

43% of businesses in the US are expected to blog in 2011. It seems there’s a writer in all of us.

And yet the blog hasn’t really changed that much. It’s still basically a date stamped, comment accumulating article of around 300-500 words with the odd video, pic or link bashed in.

Tumblr and Posterous paint a new kind of dawn where blogging becomes this rapid, visual stream of a few words or sentences – rather than the article length pieces found in most blogs.

Twitter touts instant, rapido quick-fire sentences.

All seem to be missing something. And I don’t necessarily think its a lack of tools or technologies. Nor a lack of interesting things to say.

I think it’s a failure to move style and technique on to develop merged streams… Streams of conscious, unconscious, real, unreal. Mash ups that seamlessly unite words with images, images with podcasts, podcasts with videos and comments with Tweets. Writers that routinely spill their words and images across blogs, twitter, Facebook etc. Never worrying about the platform, just the style, manically bouncing from one to the other.

Bloggers become connectors and curators of content rather than initiators. Masters at uniting the strands of diverse words, video and images from around the Web to produce a piece that’s wildly original. We’ll become Crowdsourcing editors first, writers second. Relying on rapid content discovery and integration tools rather than smokin’ the keyboard with our 10 digits alone.

Jackson Pollocks of the content space – endlessly spreading and connecting dots. Never afraid to be abstract. Not stressing about beginning, middle or end. Structured by a riotous lack of structure. Pushing the bounds.